Billy Eckstine Quotes

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

Billy Eckstine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1914 - March 8, 1993

Topics

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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

Joanne Harris

PastPeopleUnhappyMeaningBecome

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

Jeremy Lin

CollegeStereotypesOutComingGoing

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Mencius

GreatManSmallSelfGreat ManWho

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Stephen Gardiner

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The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

Robin Gibb

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I have faced up to what I am.

Robin Ince

I AmUpAmFaced

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

Rodney Crowell

ThinkYouBornBloodCircumstances

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

MeWorldEndConfusionDaysAround

I'm so grateful. I count my blessings every day.

Jazmyn Simon

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In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

Christian Kane

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My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

Chuck Norris

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You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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